Alice in Wonderland 1903
This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors.
This is the first movie version of the famous story. Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors.
An early trick film where a car explodes and body parts fall from the sky. A policeman witnesses and attempts to piece the remains back together.
As an older man and a youth are eating at the table, the older man decides to amuse himself by using pepper to make the boy sneeze. Later, the boy retaliates by sneaking into the older man's room and putting pepper in his handkerchief, hairbrush, and clothing. But things quickly get out of hand when the sneezing that results begins to disrupt the whole town.
As the camera looks down an open road, a horse and carriage approaches, and passes by to one side of the field of view. Soon afterwards, an automobile comes up the road, straight towards the camera. As it gets nearer, the occupants start to wave frantically, but can a collision be avoided?
A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.
Tomboys drive a fire engine through a fairground and hose the firemen.
Chrissie White, one of Hepworth Studios' biggest stars, heads up this feisty battle-of-the-sexes comedy about an independent young lady who, for the sake of a rich husband, poses as the epitome of Victorian femininity - weak, docile and submissive. But when he steps out of line the gloves come off to reveal 'Physical Culture Phyllis', who punches well above her weight!
Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years old, we see two tearaways terrorising a bed-ridden old lady, sabotaging a number of honest workmen as they go about their daily work, vandalising a bakery and taking a vehicle without consent - all in the space of six frenetic minutes.
Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.
Girls dress in boys' clothes and trick boarders.
A poet struggles to get her work accepted.
A habitual loser at the race-track is approached by a man who claims to be an inventor with a machine that can see into the future; but can it predict the winner of tomorrow's race? And just whom is the “inventor” trying to escape anyway?
A poor author has an engaged girl pose as his wife to please his dying father.
A man fakes an engagement to a typist to please his rich aunt.
Hamlet is a 1913 British silent drama film directed by Hay Plumb and starring Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliot and Walter Ringham.
A poor author feigns marriage to please his dying father.
A Cockney poses as his drowned double, who is saved and poses as a chauffeur.
A girl's beau poses as a burglar to fool her boastful father.
A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are altered with the appearance of a deadly serpent.
A Scottish Laird weds a peasant's niece who falls in love with his nephew.....